Poetic Documentary Movies

By letting go of the urge to control and embracing the unexpected, the creative process finds a new pulse. Thus, Gut Knows What Mind Does Not...

a short story about my dad.

Dating back to the 1800s, Birmingham’s roller skating scene is a flourishing, diverse community - but it lacks dedicated spaces. This...

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

An encounter with the last shamans of Bolivia's Beni River Valley brings the audience on an intimate spiritual journey through the Amazon Rainforest....

A poetic and psychedelic journey, tracing flows of waste materials across species boundaries, in and out of hum/animal bodies through sites of...

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query,...

Tommy sets out to document walking. He meets a colorful cast of characters, attaches microphones to his feet, and contends with what it means to...

From a high school art class to a local radio station, the day-to-day lives of several women coalesce into a poetic documentation of women’s...

Special Olympics athlete Jesse Lanterman prepares for her upcoming competition in her usual ways: working her salon job, bowling with friends, and...

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to...

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a youth music school in Leningrad and organ master Justinas...

A poetic documentary viewing the shared experience amongst people who have experienced loss.

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a children's music school in Leningrad and organ master Justin...

Miška is 20 years old, and she has a dream of living in Prague. While coming along her journey, we find out more about her mental health and...

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.